Clothes-rack.



'J. L. CLARKE.

CLOTHES RACK.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 2. 1913 Patented Jan. 5

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CLOTHES-RACK.

Application filed August 2, 1913.

Z '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN LEE CLARKE, citizen of the United States, residing at Albuquerque, in the county of Bernalillo and State of New Mexico, have invented certaln new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Racks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in drying racks for clothes and the like, and has particular reference to that type of such devices which are m practice adjustably suspended from a celling so that they may be lowered to permit the application of the clothes, and then elevated again to raise the clothes into an outof-the-way position.

As its principal object, the present lnvention contemplates the provision of a suspension drying rack including a body member, a number of clothes receiving arms, and simple securing means for detachably applying the arms to the body member.

A further object is to construct the fastening means in such manner that the arms may be held in any desired angular relation to the body member, so that the operator may swing the arms from one position to another for the purpose of exposing diiferent sides of the same piece of clothing or difierent pieces of clothing carried on the same arm to the heat source, as when the rack is suspended from the ceiling in the vicinity of a stove or radiator.

An object of equal importance with the foregoing is to construct the clothes rack of this invention with such regard to proportion, number and arrangement of parts, that it may be cheaply manufactured, will be durable and eflicient in its operation, and may be readily assembled in operative position with a minimum amount of labor and in the least possible time.

The above and additional objects are accomplished by such means as are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, described in the following specification, and then more particularly pointed out in the claims which are appended hereto and form a part of this application.

With reference to the drawings, wherein Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 5, 1915.

Serial E0. 782,587.

I have illustrated the preferred embodiment of my invention as it is reduced to practics, and throughout the several views of which similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a side elevation illustrating the body portion of the rack in elevated position with the detachable arms in assembled relation; Fig. 2 is a top plan view illustrating particularly the manner in which the terminals of the body portion are guided in their sliding movement; Fig. 3 view of the preferred form of the device employed in attaching the clothes arms to the body portion; and Fi 1- is a detail perspective view illustrating a modification of the subject-matter of Fig. 2.

Proceeding now to the description of the drawings, the numeral 10 designates the supporting bar or body portion of the rack which consists essentially in an elongated bar of wood or any other suitable material. The member 10 is suspended from the ceiling, designated conventionally at 11, by means of a pair of draw-cables 12 and 13 which are permanently secured to the member 10 in the manner indicated at 1 1, and are arranged to play through block pulleys 15 and 16. The block pulley 15 is of the single wheel type, while the other pulley 16 is a double wheel pulley, so that it may receive both of the draw-cables. These members 15 and 16 are, of course, suitably attached to the ceiling as at 17.

As a means for guiding the member 10 during the raising and lowering operation, there has been provided for each terminal of the bar a face board 18 which is suitably secured in vertical position to the wall of the room. Each of these face boards is equipped with a pair of spaced guide-ribs or strips 19 which are arranged vertically and extended in parallel relation to each other.

Upon reference to the drawings, it will be apparent that the guide-ribs or strlps 19 operate to hold the body member of the rack against rotation about its longitudinal axis. The accomplishment of this function is necessary in a rack of this type inasmuch as clothes are often hung on one side only of is a detail perspective the body member so that the entire device would be overbalanced were it not for the terminal guides above described.

The arms of the clothes rack are preferably wooden rods, although metal tubing or any other desired material may be employed, and are detachably secured to the body bar 10 by means of goose-neck hooks, the preferred form of which is indicated in Fig. 3 and designated as an entirety by the numeral20. Upon reference to Fig. 3, it

will be observed that the hook 20 consistsplate is secured to the terminal of the rod or arm 25. In attaching the arm 25 to the body bar 10, the operation involved comprehends the mere insertion of the free arm of the hook portion 23 in a bore 26 formed in the bar 10.

From the foregoing, andupon reference to the drawings, it is obvious that it is necessary to provide some simple means for holding the arms 25 in the desired angular relation to the member 10. With a view of simplifying the construction of this necessary element, the present invention employs a wing-headed wood-screw 27 of conventional design which is applied by being inserted through a threaded aperture 28 formed in the extension or arm 22 of the plate 21. It will be apparent that by threading the wood-screw 27 through the extension 22 and into engagement with the adjacent face of the bar 10, the operator may secure the rod at any desired angle. In this connection, it is to be explained that the screw 27 may be merely disposed to abut the adjacent face of the bar 10 so that the swinging movement of the clothes arm will be limited in one direction, or that one or two threads of the screw may be engaged in the body member to hold the arm against swinging movement in either direction. As previously set forth, it is desirable to hold the rods 25 at various angles, so that various portions of the same piece of clothing, or various articles of clothing supported on the same arm may be subjected to the heat in turn.

Passing now to the description of the modified form of goose-neck hook illustrated in detail in Fig. l,it will be observed on reference to this figure that the only difference between the preferred and modified forms is that in this latter form there have been provided three attaching plates, similar to the number 21 in the preferred form, so that, if desired, three arms may be supported by each hook. In this connection, it is to be noted that this inven-.

signed particularly for the purpose of detachably connecting the arms of the clothes rack to the body bar, it may, nevertheless, be as readily applied with equal efliciency to any other structure in which 'itisnecessary to detachably connect rods, arms, cross-bars,

or the like to a supporting body. v

In reduction to practice, I have found that the form of my invention, illustrated in the drawings and referred to in the above description, as the preferred embodiment,

is the most efficient and practical; yet realizing that the conditions concurrent with the adoption of my device will necessarily vary, I desire to emphasize the fact that various minor changes in details of construction, proportion and arrangement of parts may be resorted to, when required, without sacrificing any of the advantages of my invention, as defined in the appended claims.

What I claim is I 1. A rack including a body portion provided with a plurality of bores, a plurality of supporting arms, hook members carried by said arms and adapted to be detachably connected to said body portion by the insertion of their bills in said bores, each of said hook members including an attaching plate, an upwardly directed extension formed integrally therewith and provided with a threaded opening, a screw member extending through said opening, and a bill member formed on the extension.

2. A rack including a body provided with a bore, a plurality of supporting arms, and a hook member for'detachably connecting the arms to the body member, said hook member including a plurality of channelshaped attaching plates formed from a sinioo gle sheet of metal, each attaching plate,

being adapted to receive the terminal of a supporting arm, an integral vertically disposed extension formed at the junction of the attaching arms, said extension having a threaded opening, a set-screw threaded through the said opening and engaging with the body member for holding the arms In testimony whereof I aflix my signaagainst swinging movement, and a substanture in presence of two Witnesses.

tiall U-shaped bill formed on the extension and having its free arm extending in JOHN LEE CLARKE approximate parallel spaced relation there- WVitnesses:

to, said free arm portion of the bill being H. B. RAY,

insertible in the bore of the body member. R. E. HOPPEL.

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